[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add brackets to if condition in tools/setlocalversion

[John Rigby]

What distro are you running?  Some use dash for /bin/sh
instead of bash.  That may be your problem.

Liew Tsi Chung wrote:
> Wolfgang,
>
> 	Please ignore "Add brackets to if condition in
> tools/setlocalversion" patch.
>
> 	The u-boot for ColdFire was able to build prior to version
> 1.3.2. Until, I merged the local with the latest update. Whenever I
> tried to build a u-boot for any ColdFire platforms, the error message
> always end up in start.S
>
> *** cpu/mcf5445x/start.s ***
> 	.global version_string
> Version_string:
> 	.ascii U_BOOT_VERSION                           ln 378
> 	.ascii " (", __DATE__, " - ", __TIME__, ")"     ln 379
> 	.ascii CONFIG_IDENT_STRING, "\0"                ln 380 (EOF)
>
> *** error message ***
> start.S: Assembler messages:
> start.S:380 Error: unaligned opcodes detected in executable segment
> make[1]: *** [start.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '...'
>
> 	I reversed the patches from HEAD and found out it was the change
> in tools/setlocalversion. My first assumption was focused on the
> setlocalversion and by adding brackets to it solved the compiling error.
> I have not found out the actual cause of the issue yet. For the time
> being, please leave it be until I provide the update later.
>
> 	Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> TsiChung
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:25 PM
> To: Liew Tsi Chung
> Cc: U-Boot-Users; Rigby John
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add brackets to if condition in
> tools/setlocalversion
>
> In message
> <1206056978-17675-1-git-send-email-Tsi-Chung.Liew at freescale.com> you
> wrote:
>   
>> The long condition in the script causes all ColdFire platforms unable 
>> to compile correctly. By adding square brackets, all compile without 
>> error.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: TsiChung Liew <Tsi-Chung.Liew at freescale.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/setlocalversion |    4 ++--
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/setlocalversion b/tools/setlocalversion index 
>> 9bbdafd..2c27291 100755
>> --- a/tools/setlocalversion
>> +++ b/tools/setlocalversion
>> @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ cd "${1:-.}" || usage  # Check for git and a git 
>> repo.
>>  if head=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD 2>/dev/null`; then
>>  	# Do we have an untagged version?
>> -	if git name-rev --tags HEAD | \
>> -	   grep -E '^HEAD[[:space:]]+(.*~[0-9]*|undefined)$' >
>>     
> /dev/null; then
>   
>> +	if [git name-rev --tags HEAD | \
>> +	   grep -E '^HEAD[[:space:]]+(.*~[0-9]*|undefined)$' >
>>     
> /dev/null]; 
>   
>> +then
>>  	        git describe | awk -F- '{printf("-%05d-%s",
>>     
> $(NF-1),$(NF))}'
>   
>>  	fi
>>     
>
> Ummm... what exactly has this code, which is running natively in the
> shell on your development host, to do with a ColdFire cross-compile?
>
> Note that the very same code is used in the Linux kernel.
>
> If this code doesn't work for you, you also cannot compile any recent
> Linux kernel code?
>
> Also, I don't understand what you do.
>
> Unless you can provide a really good explanation why that should be
> needed I will reject this patch.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
>